Improved medical compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP BECKER, OF SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103, 545, dated May 31, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP BECKER, of South Bethlehem, in the county of N orthampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention consists in a new compound of medicinal substances for the cure of fever and ague, and other kindred diseases, the said substances being as follows, mixed in the quantities, or thereabout, as stated: quinine, one dram; Peruvian bark, one ounce; rhubarb, one-half ounce; alcohol, one gill; water, one gill; winter-green, (liquid,) one tea-spoonful; molasses or sirup, (best,) one quart, to be mixed in a bottle and kept in a cool place, and to be administered about a half-hour before meals, three times a day, about a tablespoonful to a dose.

If the medicine thus described is taken when the disease first sets in, three doses will be sufficient to check it; but it will be necessary to continue the cure a few days.

Before taking the medicine, and while taking it, a powerful physio should be taken to carry off the disease, according to the character and nature of the malady and the constitution of the patient. The use of the medicine should be continued from two to four days.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The improved medical compound, consisting of the above-described ingredients, mixed in about the proportions specified.

PHILIP BECKER.

WVitnesses:

H. J. REEDER, A. PoYoK, J AGOB 'ZoRN. 

